Let’s hope that Platkin doesn’t get wind of this. It’s trying to be pushed through both in New Mexico and Colorado.
Look at what they’re focusing on THIS time:
New Mexico’s SB 279 bears the identical title of Sen. Kelly’s failed federal bill, the Gas-Operated Semiautomatic Firearms Exclusion Act.
The focus on gas operation allows Democrats to continue to target the AR-15 rifle without having to call the rifle by name. It also allows them to demonize gas operation as if it is some new, groundbreaking technology making firearms more lethal.
In reality, however, the focus on the AR-15’s gas operation comes some 66 years after the gun was designed to use spent gas from a shell casing to reset the bolt group and ready the gun for the next round. The rifle is still just a semiautomatic, firing one round per trigger pull just like a Glock or Smith & Wesson handgun, but the gas from a spent shell casing replaces recoil in working the action.